The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-19
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Florence Carpenter Dieudonne. Cloth, Is
cents; paper cover, so cents.
The plot of this story is strange and
weird, and the incidents surprising in the
highest degree. The scene is laid chiefly in
a little star with subterranean volcanic
fires and boiling seas. To this small planet,
not yet entirely fitted for human inhab-
itantS, some of the characters are convened
by extraordinary means from the Earth
while q tempest is in progress. Their adj
ventures during the luxuriant summer and
the icy twenty years. winter are vividly
and Strikingly depicted. love, hate, jealousy
and enthusiasm entering largely into their
very peculiar and interesting experience.
FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS AND OTHER STORIES
OF NEW ENGLAND LIFE. By c. H. w. 16 mo.
cloth. Price Sl.25. Little, Brown & Com
pany, Publishers, 254 Washington street,
Boston.
This is volume of humorous stories by
new writer who has met with great favor
as contributor to the Century Magazine,
in which 1.-The Village Convict" and "Elin
two marked successes-as well as some of
the other stories now collected, were origi-
nally published. They are full of quantity
humorous sayings and sketches of Massa-
chusettS fishermen and country folk along
shore and in the back ''deestricks," and
homely, wit and humor are depicted and
described by a very careful and truthful
observer and clever writer.
EuDoRA; a Tale of Love Glustrated. ByM.B.
NJ. Toland, with drawings by II. Siddons
Mowbray and w. H. Gibson, and decorations
in the text by L. S. lpsen. j. B. Lippincott
Company, publishers, Philadelphia. Price So.
This volume is chiefly valuable for its
handsome illustrations-and they are very
handsome-and for its beautiful binding
and handsome typographical work The
poem is one of considerable merit, but after
all it simply offers the artist, the printer
and the bookbinder an opportunity for dis
playing their skill and taste The volume
would make an acceptable Christmas
present
ASHES OF THE FUTURE; study of mere human
nature, The Suicide of Sylvester Gray, By
Edward Heron-Aen. Belford Clarke & Co.
publishers New York.
With reference to this work the author
says: 1.-THE romance included under the
heading of The Ashes of the Future, con-
stituting in substance the COM
pleted history of single lie,
contain but a single moral, viz: that
mans dreams of the future are never
realized; that his castles, reared proudly,
and finished in the air, seldom rise above
UIle niSU SUOly On tCITu tIUtU.
ANT1-PovERrY AND PROGRESS; Labor and
Capital By Sister Frances NJ. Glare (Tbe
Nun of Kenmare). Bedford, Clarke & Co,
Publishers. New York.
This work is interesting in view of the fact
that questions which have been brought be-
fore the public by Henry George and DR.. Nc
Glynn are ably and Interestingly discussed
in it.
MAGAZINES
The January number of Scribner's begins
the second year of this publication The
features of the new year promise to be most
interesting and valuable contributions to
literature, and the publishers announce
ment of increased excellence in illustration
is evidently to be richly fulfilled. The first
of a series of thoughtful and charming
ESSAYS, by Robert Louis Stevenson, is en-
titled "a Chapter ON Dreams" In it he
tells in a personal, intimate way the story
OF MY Brownies, God bless themi who do
one-half my work for me while am fast
asleep, and in all human likelihood, do the
rest for me as well, when am wide awake
and fondly suppose / do it for myself" The
origin of CDR. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and
"Olallan is incidentally related. The lead
ing article of the number-"The Man at
Arms, by E. H. Blashfeld and E. w Blash-
fields very richly illustrated by the for
mer Mr. Edward L. Wilson, whose arti-
Gle on "The Modern Nile" in the
September number of the magazine
was so cordially received, contrib
utes an equally interesting account
of THE Great Pyramid" of Cheops, which
describes the appearance and structure Of
that ancient monument. The fiction is also
an exceptionally strong feature of the num-
Der, and much of it is abundantly illustra-
ted. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York.
The Cosmopolitan for December presents
the Shah of Tersia in the light of an avari-
cious barbarian, to whom cruelty and the
accumulation of wealth are sources of great
pleasure. Olive Thorne Miller's article on
"Mr. Crowley, the Chimpanzee," illustrated
by j. Carter Beard, is charming study of
a creature in the Central Park Geological
Museum. From Forest to Floor" a pro
fusely illustrated article by j. Macdonald
Oxley. Accompanying a autiful fronts
piece of Mme de Longueville, engraved by
Emile Clement, is an article, entitled "a
Politician and a Saint by James Breck
Perkins, who describes vivaciously and wit
tily The career of the handsomest and most
notable French woman or the seventeenth
century. Schlicht & Field Co., publishers
New York.
The Punsy for December contains some